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Record 18933

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this year.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 19 Oct 1829
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: city: Mount Benger
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:James Hogg
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth Nov 1770
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: author / farmer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: Scotland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Pringle [ed.]
Title: Friendship's Offering
Genre: Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: annual published by Smith Elder and Co - 1880 edition
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18933  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Hogg
  Editor: Gillian Hughes
  Title: Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
  Place of Publication: Edinburgh
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: II
  Page: 357
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 357, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18933, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to Thomas Pringle. Hogg had contributed to this.

 

 

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